OpenShift on Bare Metal
The reliable, rapid end-to-end solution for OpenShift
Production-ready OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization on Bare Metal
OpenShift is a strategic yet complex solution for running virtualized workloads alongside containers. Bare metal automation from RackN’s Digital Rebar Platform simplifies the entire process, from hardware lifecycle management to day 2 operations. This gives platform and infrastructure teams the tools needed to consistently and quickly deploy and manage OpenShift across all environments and hardware OEMs. Whether you need containers or an alternative to VMware, we make it simple to implement OpenShift on bare metal.
As your organization’s digital transformation adopts IaC practices, you can treat technology platforms as a commodity and create new opportunities for the entire business.
Why Digital Rebar?
Scalable, repeatable cluster deployment
OpenShift can be time-consuming to operate, especially for teams unfamiliar with CLI-driven processes. Digital Rebar makes OpenShift easier to install and much more efficient to scale. Using our pre-built, customizable workflows, deploy multiple clusters and even populate them with VMs in a single click or API call. Whether you’re provisioning across a single site or globally distributed infrastructure, Digital Rebar ensures consistent, repeatable OpenShift outcomes every time.
Automation for more than just developers
For platform and infrastructure teams, getting OpenShift production-ready is much more than writing YAML manifests and provisioning VMs. Automation needs to address more than containers and the application lifecycle, it has to extend to the infrastructure and platform lifecycles to be effective. Unlike most solutions, especially open-source options which lack enterprise support, Digital Rebar uses Infrastructure as Code automation to bridge the gap between teams and bring your bare metal up quickly using our proven infrastructure pipelines to get OpenShift clusters up and running.
Simplifying the Kubernetes switch
Switching from a more traditional hypervisor platform to a Kubernetes-based one can be overwhelming because of its reliance on manual processes. By integrating OpenShift operations into Digital Rebar workflows, operators don’t have to learn CLI commands or build YAML manifests. Our bare metal platform for OpenShift replaces fragile manual processes with reliable automation, helping organizations move from evaluation to production faster.
Multi-vendor and multi-site ready
It takes discipline and process control to work across heterogeneous hardware and environments. This is where traditional automation fails and Digital Rebar’s bare metal platform excels. With its industry-proven, battle-tested library of workflows, Digital Rebar automates processes across a variety of vendors, OSes, and tooling. Our patented Multi-Site Manager handles geographically distributed environments with centralized control and local execution. This means adding vendors and sites is more efficient than ever, so you never have to struggle with vendor lock-in again.
No matter how you’re using OpenShift, Digital Rebar automation makes it fast and simple to do on bare metal.
Migrating to OpenShift from VMware doesn't have to be difficult
We put together a workbook based on real customer experience to help in building out a transition plan. If you’re starting to plan out your migration strategy, it’s worth a read.
Digital Rebar Bare Metal Capabilities
Provisioning Automation
Expand Choice starting from a multi‑vendor Provisioning Automation and proven best practices
Infrastructure as Code
Improve Consistency with fully source-controlled Infrastructure as Code automation and API‑driven workflows
Distributed Infrastructure
Gain Control across your edge, enterprise, co‑lo and cloud Distributed Infrastructure while keeping site autonomy.
Orchestration as Code
Enable Creation of an end-to-end pipeline capable of infrastructure coordination and automation of DevOps Day 2 operations.
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